Cyber Security Case Studies

In May 2020, the company disclosed a 'data security incident' where unauthorized actors obtained customer information from their user account database. The disclosure came after the discovery of their database being advertised on a dark web marketplac...

In May 2020, the telecommunications company disclosed that it had suffered a cyber attack in which hackers compromised a cloud server located in its data center, before using it as a 'stepping stone' to attack another internal server and its Active Di...

In April 2020, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund discovered that they had been defrauded of over $10 million after falling victim to a business email compromise scam during communications about a transfer which was intended for a micro-finance...

In May 2020, the company experienced an incident where a virus successfully infected servers within their private network by exploiting a critical vulnerability in Salt (the open-source software used by data centers and cloud servers) which was then u...

In March 2020, while the world's attention was being captured by the pandemic, the company disclosed that in May 2019 they had discovered an "unsanctioned third party" had gained unauthorized access to employees' email accounts that contained personal...